SCIENCE TEST
CLASS-VI
Topic: FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM
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The plant products used as ingredients for making tea are:
(a)
Sugar
(b)
Tea leaves
(c)
Stem and leaves
(d)
Sugar, tea leaves, water and milk
Edible parts of onion plant (spring onion) are
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(a)
Roots
(b)
Stems
(c)
Stems and leaves
(d)
Flowers
To make idli, the ingredients used are
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(a)
Rice, urad dal
(b)
Rice, salt
(c)
Rice, water, urad dal
(d)
Rice, urad dal, salt, water
Sprouted grains can be
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(a)
Eaten
(b)
Eaten raw
(c)
Eaten raw or as salad
(d)
Cooked
Sprouted (moong) grains/seeds are rich in
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(a)
Vitamins
(b)
Nutrients and vitamins
(c)
Carbohydrates
(d)
Proteins
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What is meant by food?
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7.
Which animals are called scavengers?
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8.
How do plants make their food?
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9.
Match the items given in Column A with Column B
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10.
Column A
Colum B
a.
Milk, curd, paneer and ghee
i.
eat other animals
b.
Spinach, cauliflower and carrot
ii.
eat plants and plant products
c.
Lions and tigers
iii.
are vegetables
d.
Herbivores
iv.
are all animal products.
(a)
Why are animals called consumers also?
(b)
Name two animals that provide us milk.
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11.
What is the difference between edible and non-edible parts of the plants?
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12.
How are seeds sprouted?
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Give two examples for each:
(a) Herbivores
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(b)
Carnivores
(c)
Omnivores
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Write any three differences between herbivore and carnivores animals.
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15.
Name the edible part of radish, carrot and turnip plants.
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16.
State whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Rewrite the False statements
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(a)
Plants are also called autotrophs.
(b)
Cockroaches are omnivores
17.
Write three differences between consumers of food and producers of food.
18.
What are the different sources of food for human beings? Explain in brief in reference to plant parts as
source of food.
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19.
Do as Directed
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(a)
Human beings get food from ............................sources.
(b)
Food gives us ..................................to do work.
(c)
........................................is the process by which green plants make their own food.
(d)
The food which is mainly eaten by many of us is called staple food. (T/F)
(e)
The stem part of sugar cane is edible. (T/F)
Analogy type Questions
(a) Heterotrophs:Consumers of food.......................................: Producers of food.
(b)
Human-beings: Omnivore : : Tiger:......................................
(c)
Animals :...........................................: : Plants : Autotroph.
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SOLUTIONS
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(d)
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(a)
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(d)
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(c)
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(d)
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Food is any substance that is used as a source of nourishment by an organism.
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The animals that eat dead bodies of other animals.
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Plants make their food by the process called photosynthesis.
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a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii
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(a) Animals are called consumers because they are not able to produce their food in fact they consume the plants which are producers.
(b)
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Cow, Goat
Edible parts: The parts which can be easily eaten are called edible parts
e.g. : Leaves, fruits and vegetables.
Non-edible parts: The parts which cannot eaten by consumers are called non-edible part.
12.
Take same seeds of channa (black) and soaked them water overnight. Then keep them aside for the
next two days . After two days the small plumule arises from each channa, that plumule part is the
sprouted part of plant.
13.
(a)
Cow, Deer
(b)
Lions, Eagles
(c)
Human, Bears
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Herbivore:
Carnivore:
i.
Animals that eat only plants
i.
Animals that eat other animals
ii.
They have flat & blunt molars.
ii.
They have long & sharp cannivores
iii.
They swallow their food and uses as cut. iii.
Edible part of radish
–
Root
Edible part of carrot
–
Root
Edible part of turnip
–
Root
True
They use different methods for engulfing their
food
16.
(a)
(b) True
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Consumers
Producers
i.
i.
They depend upon producers for
their survival
ii.
The prepare the food for thermselve as well as
for others.
They intake all nutrients from the
ii.
producers
They prepare all the nutrients for themselves
as well as for others.
18.
A large varioet of food is available in different form some food times can be eaten raw and some have to
be cooked different food given by plants are - cereals, rice, wheat.
19.
(a)
Natural
(b)
Energy
(c)
Photosynthesis
(d)
True
(a)
Autotrophs
(b)
Carnivorous
(c)
Heterotrophs
20.
(d)
True